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I’m not OP, but I also don’t have an internal monologue (and I don’t dream, but I can construct images in my head “on demand”). I was in my late 20s before I realized that an internal monologue was not a literary device used by authors when telling a story - and people have an internal voice.

Think of it this way: unless something is causing sound externally there is absolute silence. It’s peaceful sure, but your aware of all the little noises of things around you. One thing that can be hellish is getting a song stuck in your head ( I know several 3/4 and 5/4 melodies for just this reason).

Please do not eat food served via a 3d printed tool/plate/bowl/cup. A number of the materials that are used for 3d printing are toxic (cross contamination is likely even if the material has been changed), and the plastic can contain small abrasion which are impossible to sanitize.

It depends on your goal. If it’s to learn (to say get a different job) you want/need as much flexibility as you can get. If it’s just to have a media server then you probably want to optimize in favor of that.

Think of this like any specialty skill. It’s hard the first time but will quickly become second nature. But first you have some homework…

If you have a way to section off your network and understand how to expose service’s to the web you are off to a great start from the networking side.

For the ssl cert. As others have mentioned it’s time to go read up on how DNS works. You don’t need to go super technical (yet, if ever) - but getting you head around DNS delegation and registers will answer all the questions you have here. The super TLDR is you “buy” a domain and tell your register where they can tell others to find the records for that domain. Once you can prove you own the domain you can get certs. There are a bunch of options going this path, I’m most familiar with the enterprise grade choices (aka super expensive) so am not the best to recommend something for someone starting out.

Now for VMs. I’m sorry to say it’s homework time. You have three primary choices: everything in a full VM, everything in containers or a mix. If your interested in having a GUI (learn the cli when your comfortable) then I’m going to recommend you look at two different technologies: proxmox (it’s overkill but might be what you want) or virt-manager.

Well. That’s one reaction.

I wish you best of luck. Some advice not related to your project - soft skills are as important (if not more in some instances) then hard skills.

I’m gonna echo some of the other people here. While I don’t debug code for fun (thank you to everyone who does), I represent the security/operations side of the house (eventually you’ll learn to love or hate people like me). If you don’t understand what your writing, the odds of it getting shipped in my environment are zero.

Now some honest advice. Stop the project, and put on your learning hat. You need to learn some basic fundamentals. If you are good at self study something like learnpythonthehardway.org might be a good jumping off pont.

Once the fundamentals are out of the way, all projects follow a similar trend: start with a desired goal, break that down into components, repeat breaking down components til you have discreet tasks, understand your dependency tree, and start tackling the tasks.

Cobol. We have experienced this problem happening organically with Cobol developers. The worlds financial infrastructure runs on Cobol and anyone who had skills in this language can pick the company they want to work at.

So let’s talk about the Anthropic models, cause that’s what I’m playing with on the company dime.

Wire up a few mcp configs (don’t even start me on the inherent risks associated with current MCP permissions model…) and give it a run book and it’s great at generating reports for me about stuff I kinda care about.

Could if replace an entry level grad? Sure. Will that company have all kinds of strange problems - hell yes. Think of it as an intern. You can give it all the crappy intern tasks while you make coffee. Only the intern improves when you give feedback…